Rachael Bale is a journalist with 13 years of experience in investigative journalism as a reporter, editor, and team manager. As executive editor of the National Geographic’s Animals desk, managing six staff writers and editors, and freelancers around the world, she also oversaw Wildlife Watch, National Geographic’s investigative reporting project on wildlife crime and exploitation, which she helped grow into an internationally recognized platform for in-depth reporting. She herself reported multiple investigations, including revealing a transnational network of cheetah cub traffickers, the scale and impact of pangolin poaching and trafficking, and the sudden surge of jaguar poaching in the Bolivian Amazon that paralleled an increase in Chinese development projects in the county. She is a two-time Livingston Award finalist and has received recognitions from the National Press Club and Society of Environmental Journalists.
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